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I found feedstail a day ago and I really like it. Unfortunately I believe there are a few bugs in listing items of a feed.

To make the problems clear, I will use the numbers 1 to 5, where 1 is the oldest item and 5 the most recent one.

tail is supposed to show the most recent items at the bottom. That is what tail does. tail a log file as an example. But when I use feedstail, the newest entries are shown at the top. So basically feedstail behaves like head and not like tail.

IMO, the output should look like this:

1
2
3
4
5

When a new item 6 is available and fetched, it should be added to the bottom:

1
2
3
4
5
6

But currently the output looks like this:

5
4
3
2
1
6

I've also noticed that sometimes the items are not in sequence at all:

5
3
4
1
2
6

Using the -r option in combination with -n does not work either. In above example, -r -n 3 produces the following output:

1
2
3

So it shows you the oldest 3 items - and then what? Waits for a new item and adds 6 (when it's available) to the bottom?

Hmm, somehow the chronological output of this program makes no sense at all.

Can you please let me know how I can show the 5 newest items of a feed in the order from oldest to newest and then output (append) new items at the bottom?

If feedstail is started while offline, it will not show any entries even if an internet connection is established later. I start feedstail on start up and have to connect manually to the internet.